Open Secrets

With next week's elections imminent, readers may care to visit Open Secrets, a website that monitors campaign contributors and their donations to candidates for federal office.

Go here to find out how much Charles Koch of Koch Industries has contributed to whom during the 2005-2006 election cycle. Go here to find out how much his brother David, vice-presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party in 1980, has shelled out during this same period. If, as expected, the Democrats win control of the House next week, would they have been better off distributing their largesse more widely?

Be advised that, if you wish to look up another donor, you should write a comma between their last name and their first name. Otherwise you will get no results.